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Book SynopsisRose Tremain (Author, Introducer) Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (
The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award
(The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (
Music & Silence) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina in France (
Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (
The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is
Lily, a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
Trade ReviewFor a vivid – and funny – fictional re-creation of the era, Tremain’s
Restoration is hard to beat. -- Robbie Millen * The Times *
Richly evocative novel. * BBC History Magazine *
Triumphant * Sunday Telegraph *
To be moved and impressed by a novel and yet so entertained, is rare -- Fay Weldon
A dazzling triumph… It is nothing less than superb * New York Times Book Review *
